In pictures: Our picture editor selects the best images from around the globe, February 18

OUR daily picture editor's gallery shows off some of the most spectacular images taken by the world's top photographers.

IN today's gallery, adventure photographer Lucinda Grange surveys the Manhattan skyline - perched hundreds of feet up on the edge of the Chrysler Building.

In a picture that looks more Hollywood CGI than real life, the 25-year-old from Hartlepool, UK, sits one of the iconic eagle heads 61 floors above street level.

For the past six years the daredevil snapper has travelled the world scaling famous buildings and structures and taking pictures from the top.

Meanwhile, a British man has travelled 8000 miles around the world refusing to use any motorised transport.

Dave Cornthwaite is hoping to complete 25 expeditions of over 1000 miles without using motorised transport.

The 34-year-old, from Shipston-on-Stour, Warks, quit his graphic designer job at 25 and started his adventure around the world in unconventional ways.

Also, a herd of majestic wild horses appear to race against each other as they gallop freely through the shallow waters of the Crystal Coast and a dog wears a 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics branded cap in a pet shop at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

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